Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oregon's Jean Saubert, 21: the special slalom at the women's Silver Jug ski races, in Bad Gastein, Austria. Only U.S. female skier to win a race in Europe this winter (she has now won four), Jean beat France's Marielle Goitschel by about 1 sec., and established herself as a heavy favorite to win either or both slalom events at the Olympics in Innsbruck next week...
...second story. But by no means all of Spectator Sex is unpleasant. American clothes nowadays manage to be both free and attractive -necklines are down, skirts are up, ski pants are tight, girdles are out, and figures are better than ever, to which there can be very few objections...
Mistaken Impression. Daughter of a U.S. forest ranger, Jean Saubert, 21, learned to ski from her father, who took her to Sun Valley, Idaho, for two weeks' vacation once a year. The family settled in Cascadia, Ore., just 40 miles from Hoodoo Ski Bowl, and by the time she was 14, Jean was good enough to win the slalom at the National Junior Championship in Reno. But it is a long way from the junior championships to the Olympics, and nobody paid much attention when she finished sixth in the giant slalom...
...disasters against Sonny Liston, ex-Champion Patterson floored Amonti three times before the Italian gave up the fight. > Mickey Wright, 28: election to the Ladies Golf Hall of Fame, after winning a record 13 tournaments and $31,269 on the 1963 pro tour. > Veikko Kankkonen: the international Four Hills ski-jumping tournament, a grueling nine-day test over four separate hills in West Germany and Austria, beating Austria's Baldur Preiml for the title with a leap of 320 ft. at Bischofshofen, Austria...
...Came to N.H. when I was three, learned to ski," wrote the 1960 Winter Olympics top-ranking U.S. woman skier on one of those biographical questionnaires. And she still thinks that a tender age is the right time to learn. So at Gilford, N.H., where she now runs a ski school, it was Penny Pitou and her son, too, out in the snow for his first lesson. And with proud Mom, 25, grinning from muffed ear to muffed ear, Christian, 2, struck a pose that proved he was to the manner born...